Richard Ansdell
Richard Ansdell RA (born May 11, 1815 in Liverpool , † April 19, 1885 in Farnborough , Hampshire ) was an English painter who specialized in animal motifs.
Life
Ansdell was a member of the Liverpool Academy where he was also chairman from 1837 to 1852. On June 30, 1870, he was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts . He exhibited 149 paintings there between 1840 and 1885.
Richard Ansdel did not devote himself to painting until he was 21 years old. After starting some genre paintings , he painted the death of Sir W. Lambton at Marston-Moor in 1842, which was widely acclaimed, and in 1844 Queen Mary of Scotland returning from the hunt.
He became better known than through these pictures for his numerous animal pieces, which he paints in the manner of Sir Edwin Landseer , but with less spirit and expression. These include: death (1843), the fight (1848), the shepherd's revenge and the Fox hunt in the north (1855), the cattle market in the highlands (1874), the wolf killer and some sheep pictures.
When he had traveled to Spain in 1856 and 1857, he also described the local folk and animal life in a very interesting way and won several prizes for his pictures (e.g. the water carrier , drinking mules , crossing a ford in Seville ). Its animal characteristics are often very appropriate, and its coloring is always brilliant.
gallery
Good friends
The Gamekeeper
The storm
The blacksmith
The dogs
The Hunted Slaves
literature
- Gerhard Charles Rump: Ansdell, Richard . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 4, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-598-22744-2 , p. 193.
Individual evidence
- ^ Royal Academy of Arts, Database Entry - Richard Ansdell , accessed April 9, 2013.
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ansdell, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English painter who specializes in animal motifs |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liverpool |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1885 |
| Place of death | Farnborough , Hampshire |